Putting Grit in The Clockworks

“…laws are not designed to stop the most motivated criminals. We’ve never seen a law in any realm that stopped all crime. At best, laws discourage the people on the margin. Gun control is no different. The objective is to add some friction and reduce the risk that someone angry enough to pick up an AR doesn’t also have a bump stock in the house.”

What is he missing?

The “friction” doesn’t only work against bad guys. The fact is, if you add “friction,” it prevents some percentage of good people from owning the gun they need to defend themselves, just as it might prevent some percentage of bad guys from having some specific tool.

It’s convenient to ignore that part of the equation when you feel the desire to justify the unjustifiable.

This is why all anti-gun “laws” are evil. They are always going to be a net negative, because there are only two kinds of “laws”– the unnecessary and the harmful. Anti-gun “laws” are harmful, because for every hypothetical life saved, there is a hypothetical life lost. Plus added expense, time lost in trying to comply or maneuver around the “law”, and risk of being caught doing nothing wrong, only “illegal”.

Anti-gun bigotry (which is the basis for every anti-gun “law”, whether admitted or not) is nothing but “feelings” over rights and reality. Cowardice. My feelings don’t trump your rights. And I’m OK with that. I wish other people would stop pretending otherwise.

Back to the blog linked, Adams makes other flawed claims: “Both sides pretend they are arguing on principle, but neither side is.”
Really? respecting the absolute right of humans to own and to carry weapons isn’t arguing from principle? You might not like the principle involved, but it is there. But there is no principle involved in violating human rights, so the anti-liberty bigots are always on the wrong side.

He also says “Both sides are arguing from their personal risk profiles, and those are simply different. Our risk profiles will never be the same across the entire population, so we will never agree on gun control.”

Here’s the problem with that… if you believe that owning a gun is “risky” for you, then I am in favor of you making the personal choice to not own one. However, your “risk profile” places no obligation on anyone else. Ever. My gun is not a risk to you as long as you don’t try to archate in my presence. No matter how it makes you feel. Cowards, and those who want to be able to archate in relative safety, will never agree with me on anti-gun “laws”– and I’m OK with that, too. They are only testifying against themselves. And it isn’t my responsibility to coddle them, or allow myself to be violated on their behalf.